I know Kenny Uston used this title. My meaning is a little different.
On one of the BJ forums that I used to participate at a number of years ago, I posted a thread, which was pretty popular, entitled "My 10 year, million dollar BJ plan".
Following a monumental run of the past month or so, today, I hit this million dollar mark in career blackjack, card counting winnings. It took about 4.5 years longer than planned.
More on this in a moment.
I know there will be those that accuse me of bragging. This is not my intention. A million dollars is no longer some great amount of money that sets you for life. I am 30 years way from retirement, so hopefully this is just one step. I am sure there are many in our community that have achieved far greater success both in the AP world and private workforce, and probably in far less time. But because I started from scratch, with this "plan", this milestone is important to me.
I want to clarify that I am only talking about my card counting blackjack winnings. I topped the million mark in total AP winnings several years ago, which included winnings from machine play, hole-carding, the big six wheel, and other AP plays and techniques, but this 10 year plan that I came up with back in 2004, was not about those techniques. I had no idea about those techniques. The 10 year plan was about blackjack card counting and today I achieved that, and am proud of it.
I think what I am most proud of is the "turn" that things took, midway through my career (and the plan). Having started my career playing low limit, red chip stakes in Atlantic City (this is the part that took much longer than expected), almost as soon as I built a bankroll significant enough to move up in stakes, to green to black play, Atlantic City basically shut me down with bet restricting and half shoeing counter measures.
This could have been the end of my career....but it wasn't. I regrouped, formulated a new plan, which involved moving to Las Vegas and a larger rotation of games, and more importantly implementing a style of play (and levels) that are better tolerated. I learned from my failures in Atlantic City what would be tolerated and how to play so as to play within comfort levels. I am very proud of this and this is why, although a bit late...this milestone is very important to me. Better late than never.
On one of the BJ forums that I used to participate at a number of years ago, I posted a thread, which was pretty popular, entitled "My 10 year, million dollar BJ plan".
Following a monumental run of the past month or so, today, I hit this million dollar mark in career blackjack, card counting winnings. It took about 4.5 years longer than planned.
More on this in a moment. I know there will be those that accuse me of bragging. This is not my intention. A million dollars is no longer some great amount of money that sets you for life. I am 30 years way from retirement, so hopefully this is just one step. I am sure there are many in our community that have achieved far greater success both in the AP world and private workforce, and probably in far less time. But because I started from scratch, with this "plan", this milestone is important to me.
I want to clarify that I am only talking about my card counting blackjack winnings. I topped the million mark in total AP winnings several years ago, which included winnings from machine play, hole-carding, the big six wheel, and other AP plays and techniques, but this 10 year plan that I came up with back in 2004, was not about those techniques. I had no idea about those techniques. The 10 year plan was about blackjack card counting and today I achieved that, and am proud of it.
I think what I am most proud of is the "turn" that things took, midway through my career (and the plan). Having started my career playing low limit, red chip stakes in Atlantic City (this is the part that took much longer than expected), almost as soon as I built a bankroll significant enough to move up in stakes, to green to black play, Atlantic City basically shut me down with bet restricting and half shoeing counter measures.
This could have been the end of my career....but it wasn't. I regrouped, formulated a new plan, which involved moving to Las Vegas and a larger rotation of games, and more importantly implementing a style of play (and levels) that are better tolerated. I learned from my failures in Atlantic City what would be tolerated and how to play so as to play within comfort levels. I am very proud of this and this is why, although a bit late...this milestone is very important to me. Better late than never.
